Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-01-22
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.


comp0sitor interprets our copy &C.
cording to the law and the evidence.
When he gets through molding it,
it's drear and barren as a rainy day.
| forgive him. am not so particu.
lar as used to be when first started
out to address you on local subjects
you've learned to take me at what
mean, not at what the Office people
make me say, and SO we understand
each other.
/ don't know much of what you
have been doing socially the past
week I've been living more or less
in new world TO me, and I've been
vastly interested in in it. Seen from
my vantage ground that world is q
stage, and the acting moreover has
the advantage of being perfectly
natural. You all remember of odd
tricks and associations OF a psycholog-
ical order coming to you at some
time in the form of impressions. feel
lngs, emanating from some contact
or association with things, or to de-
scribe it more clearly, you have all
met persons at sometime whom you
instinctively or rather intuitively
distrusted, altho' they gave you no
reason whatever to do so, no basis at
all for the feeling. You say to your
self, / don't like him. or l don't like
her, as the case may be. NowI don't
know how good such intuition holds
with men, but with most of women
intuition is the advance guard of
reason, and seldom sounds an alarm
unwarranted. Did you ever try
changing hats with another man?
not for the enterprising purpose of
getting better one, but to see if the
association wouldn't affect you ?
knew an impressionable Doctor who
by mistake carried away hat belong
ing to contractor, and he said that
he felt like inspecting every new
house he seen on the way, and found
himself making an estimate on the
probable cost of building, etc. Gen.
tlemen of brain power will not hold
me responsible if they find their hats
confiscated. i tried it once. / put
on a hat belonging to a lawyer, and
passed thro' all the stages, from
queer to the designing, then I threw
if off, glad enough to get back my
ON identity. Now the witness chair
would be good place for impression
able people to try this experiment in.
The association and conglomeration
of feeling that would overflow the
personality of individuals in that
rack dedicated to justice, might well
be given as their excuse for talking
back to counsel at the rate of $50
words per minute, and "sldck at
that. Whoever invented the term
cross examination builded better than
he knew. If you don't believe me
ask the Prosecuting Attorney what
he knows about mother-in-laws.-
There was not "more fuss than feath-
ers" in his turkey hunt in that
quarter. Now as to this witness
chair l haven't doubt but that the
minute people sit down in it they
feel as if they had inherited all the
evil associations that tenanted it prior
to their introduction and their in
tervieWs with counsel on the right
and left wing are not calculated to
remove that uncanny impression. In
fact Sheir universal uneasiness is what
made me think of the idea of associa-
ton have mentioned.
Resolutions were passed by the
Court Tuesday upon the death of
Major E. S. TroXell. Judge Faulk-
ner loses no time, cases are disposed
of as rapidly as possible.
Al. Fields and Companys operate
Ministries gave an exceptionally fine
Saturday night. They
gave some happy local hits to an
audience that enjoyed them.
There is no longer anything graen"
in THE HERALD's market reports,
but it is fresh and new at least. So is
the improved square enclosure "city
style" at top of the first page. All
that is needed now is an appropriate
motto to hang out over the arch-way.
Send in your notices and I'll give
them their choice; no restrictions as
to text or style, anything from, This
is newspaper, down,-or up.
The Religious Services during the
past week have continued with una
bated interest; crowded houses have
been the rule, with often only stand
ing room. There is plenty of room
for christianity in this town, and
Va 1OI ITO
tiOns, and every one is glad to see
the general interest taken in it. The
Captain with his puns, as well.
By the way don't doubt the States
mans desire to make it pleasant for
me around the Temple of Justice, but
Captain it's the worst possible sort of
this attracting the attention
of the dear five hundred. Remember
| don't wear wig; and as you per-
haps know by experience, being mar
ried, it's not very pleasant to have
ones hair pulled.
Andy Criswell says that Mr.. Brown
thought he heard an earthquake the
other night, but when he come to
question, it was only "Dick" Cooper
and the other heavy weight of the
House whose name have forgotten
turning themselves over in their
couches.
Mr.. Rollo Criswell was in town DUR
ing the week.
Mr.. Will Hoke is in the city on a
visit of business and pleasure. Sue
cess in both.
Mr.. VIM. Bellar, of Berkeley Co.,
whose home has been in Kansas for
some time past, is visiting friends
and relatives in this city. LEONE.
PUBLIC MEETING.-A number of
the citizens Of MartinShurp and CONN